GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 22, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Embracer Group has announced its split into three separate companies. The three entities created will independently publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 24, 2024

When Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors declared an end to the company's nine-month restructuring program at the start of this month, you would have been forgiven for assuming that things would finally settle for the troubled games group. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox To say it's been a rough year for the games industry's workforce is putting it mildly; thousands of jobs have been lost as companies restructure and downsize following rapid growth during the onset of the pandemic. Read more

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Companies have limited resources and can only spend their time developing the best of the best. Even the “hulking behemoth” of Asmodee has about 750 employees. This is all to say that even if Asmodee were to produce games that didn’t have product-market fit, they wouldn’t be able to survive long.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You do not have to bend to the will of companies which have their own standards and norms. You do not have to run your ideas across a company before talking to others. People will know you by your name and not just as someone with Asmodee, Stronghold, or some other publishing company. Just do it because you can.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 26, 2024

This week Embracer announced that it is going to split into three separate publicly-listed game companies: Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. It had previously acquired Asmodee for $3 billion, and the tabletop and board game category has continued to perform well.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 16, 2023

After its rapid rise to become Europe’s largest and most valuable game publisher, Embracer suffered a $2 billion loss on the eve of its most recent earnings and woke up this week to a company-wide restructuring plan. Today, Embracer in its entirety is worth $3 billion, roughly the same as what it paid for Asmodee in December 2021.

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